Knight of Pentacles

You are reliable, steady, consistent at work, and it is valued. Somewhere the routine stopped being a means and became the whole job.

What are you doing every week at work because you have always done it, not because it still works?

Question one routine this week and change or drop it.

Your money runs on a steady routine and the routine has not been reviewed in a long time. Steady is not the same as right.

When did you last check whether the standing arrangements still make sense?

Review one of them this week and adjust it.

You are steady with them, dependable, always there. Always there has become a way of never having to bring anything new.

What have you stopped doing for them that used to be effort?

Do one effortful thing this week that is not part of the routine.

You will take the steady option, as you always do. Steady has served you. Check whether this time it is a choice or a reflex.

What would you decide if you were not the reliable one?

Consider that option properly today before defaulting.

You keep going, day after day, and the going has become the goal. Nobody has asked where, including you.

What is all this steadiness for?

Write the answer in one line tonight. If you cannot, that is the answer.

You show up for the work every day and it has become a routine that produces routine work. Showing up is not the same as risking anything.

When did the work last surprise you?

Break the routine once this week: a new form, a new time, a new constraint.